Property Rights in Land: Issues in Social, Economic and Global History

ISBN-13: 9780367876067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 212 str.

Rosa Congost; Jorge Gelman; Rui Santos

Opis

Property Rights in Land widens our understanding of property rights by looking through the lenses of social history and sociology, discussing mainstream theory of new institutional economics and the derived grand narrative of economic development. Written by a collection of expert authors, the chapters delve into social processes throug

Spis treści

Introduction Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman and Rui Santos

Chapter 1: Migration and Accommodation of Property Rights in the Portuguese Eastern Empire, Sixteenth – Nineteenth Centuries José Vicente Serrão and Eugénia Rodrigues

　

Chapter 2: Alternative Uses of Land and Re-Negotiation of Property Rights: Scandinavian Examples, 1750–2000 Mats Morell

　

Chapter 3: Institutional Innovations and Economic Development in Lombardy, Eighteenth – Twentieth Centuries Andrea M. Locatelli and Paolo Tedeschi

　

Chapter 4: The Shift to ‘Modern’ and Its Consequences: Changes in Property Rights and Land Wealth Inequality in Buenos Aires, 1839–1914 Julio Djenderedjian and Daniel Santilli

　

Chapter 5: Taming the Platypus: Adaptations of the Colonia Tenancy Contract to a Changing Context in Nineteenth-Century Madeira Benedita Câmara and Rui Santos

　

Chapter 6: Demythologizing and De-Idealizing the Commons: Ostrom’s Eight Design Principles and the Irrigation Institutions in Eastern Spain Samuel Garrido

　

Chapter 7: Hopes of Recovery: Struggles Over the Right to Common Lands in the Spanish Countryside, 1931–1936 Iñaki Iriarte-Goñi and José-Miguel Lana

　

Chapter 8: Hurdles to Reunification: Cultural Memories and Control over Property in Post-Socialist Rural East Germany Joyce E. Bromley and Axel Wolz

　

Chapter 9: Property Rights in Land: Institutions, Social Appropriations, and Socioeconomic Outcomes Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman and Rui Santos

O autorze

Rosa Congost is Full Professor in economic history and researcher of the Centre for Research in Rural History at the University of Girona, Spain and ICREA Academy Researcher.

Jorge Gelman is Senior Researcher and current Chair of the Instituto Ravignani, Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET, and Full Professor in history at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Rui Santos is Associate Professor in sociology and researcher at CICS.Nova and IHC at the Nova University of Lisbon, FCSH/Nova, Portugal.